Reel

Vietnam Action

Vietnam Action
Clip: 425900_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1761
Original Film: 040-041-01
HD: N/A
Location: Huong Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam
Timecode: -

Sprawling Huong Hoa Air Base target for Viet Cong rockets blasted an air plane hanger and a smaller air strip just north of the capital city of Saigon. In back and forth fighting, U.S. airbases are blasted by Vietcong; U.S. Marines clobber the enemy at Hills 861 and 881; Marine pilots blast Cong missile sites violating the neutral zone; and Marine ground troops clear a VC village. In all, close to 12 hundred enemy killed. Camera panning - Huong Hoa Air Base and jet planes parked on the tarmac. MS - A destroyed air plane hanger. MS - A small crowd of air base personal gather to look over the aftermath of the bombing. CU - A soldiers shoe laying among the rubble. MS - A soldiers bunk bed sitting in the mist of a destroyed building. LS - Smoke rising from the Vietnam hills. A explosion takes place and a cloud of black smoke rises. Rear shot medium - Two fully dressed for combat soldiers walking through the field in the foreground you can see bombs exploding. "Operation Baker" US Marines meet up with a communist attack at a point blank range. MS - Marines and tanks, High Angle shot - Viet Cong prisoners taken, a Marine holds one by the arm leading him through some high grass land. CU - A Marine handing another Marine confiscated communist weapons. CU - Marine standing with one of the assault weapons that were confiscated from the Viet Cong. Medium High Angle shot - Two dead Viet Cong laying on the ground. CU - US Marine tank with soldiers sitting on top of the tank with their machine guns at the ready.